Suppressing Job Log Messages

[Guest.Visitor]

I am writing a program that is writing records to a keyed file. When I do the write I check for duplicates with an invalid key statement. Even with this check in the program my job log contains messages about trying to write a duplicate record. Is there any way to keep these messages from displaying in the job log? Thank you in advance for any help. Aaron Wolfe

[Guest.Visitor]

Do a Read on the record before the write. That way you'll know to write or bypass. This takes care of the job log problem.

[Guest.Visitor]

Does the file you are using, specify the UNIQUE keyword? Dave

[S.Mildenberger]

Instead of doing a READ, do a SETLL to determine if the record already exists in a file. This method doesn't change any of the fields in the program and it more efficient than actually reading the record. Scott Mildenberger

[J.Panzenhagen]

Perhaps too simple, but could you do a CHGJOB LOG(0 99 *NOLIST) before calling the program. This should not put anything in the joblog, but you may want to make the programming changes recommended to prevent the overhead of duplicate record checking and exception handling. John Panzenhagen